Once again it is time for an update of what is happening in the garden. With my laptop out of action last month, I’ve missed quite a bit. We are in the height of summer now, and the grass in the paddocks is dry and yellow. In the garden we are busy as always.
Planting
At this time of year the planting slows down. CB has planted some scarlet runner beans, as well as climbing beans and bush beans.
Our potatoes were late going in this year. We only got them in at the beginning of December. At the same time Country Boy planted out the zucchinis, some more corn, and carrots.
The pumpkins have been planted down near the pig pen again this year. We have only just finished eating last years bumper crop.
Harvesting
The amount of vegetables we have been harvesting is slowly increasing, and in the next month we will be picking vegetables in earnest.
We have already pulled about half of the onions, with the rest hopefully coming out in the next week.
As always we have oodles of rocket, parsley, silver beet, and rhubarb. I have been making rhubarb and vanilla jam which is soooo yummy. I will have to post the recipe sometime.
The strawberries and blueberries never actually made it into the house. The kids would go out after dinner and eat the berries straight from the bushes, still warm from the sun.
Jobs to do
We are having problems with earwigs. They are eating holes in everything. So far we have tried containers with oil and oatmeal to attract them, wet newspaper which they crawl into (and then we throw in the bin), and tomato dust. Has anyone got some other ideas of safe methods to use?
In the next month our tomatoes will start ripening and our harvest will be in full swing. We will be preserving all our extras to use through out the year, and Country Boy will sell what we can’t use to locals in our village.
At this time of year we are always watering, weeding and mulching. It is definitely busy!
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Linking up with Strayed From The Table for the Garden Share Collective.
rhubarb and vanilla – yum – recipe definitely. For the earwigs you may want to try some of Yates Natures Way Dipel – Its not toxic and is made from squashed bugs and doesn't harm the bees. I found that it gets rid of most pests, I just read the box I have and it does do earwigs too.
Beautiful photos of your very productive garden.
We have plenty of ear wigs here too.
If you have chooks they're very good at controlling them. The earwigs gather under timber etc. during the day so I call the chooks over, move the timber and they get a tasty little treat.
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Your garden is looking very luscious considering we are in the Summer months. Look forward to your rhubarb and vanilla jam recipe, sounds delicious x
Thank goodness for dams. We have to water several times a week